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directory. 

And speaking 

of COUPONS 

this issue 

is better yet. 

How? Well 

How about 

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or tea 

•discounts on 

high fashion, 

juice and 

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•$5 off 

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Good Friday 

is always 

. where to be. 

The fishmongers 

barbecue 

in front of 

their stores, 

with free samples 

of grilled seafood 

for all who come? 

Join us. 

~ Baldwin and Kensington. The intersection that puts the Tin traffic. 

Kensington sets good exainple 

for Wild Culture conference 

(four page pull-out conference brochure inside) 

by Chris Lowry 

How does our neighbourhood fit 

into the big "green" future? Kensington 

residents will have a chance 

to find out, and talk about it, during 

Our Own Backyard: Toronto 

Bioregion Week, a series of public 

forums, lectures, performances and 

festivities coming up very soon. All 

the events will be at central downtown 

locations, mostly in the evening 

and on the weekends from this 

Saturday March 28 to n~xt weekend 

April 5, starting with a real barndance 

hoedown at St. Matthias 

parish hall over on Bellwoods 

Avenue, a ten-minute walk from 

_ Dundas and Augu!;ta (see the schedule 

in this issue of the Drom). 

Blue Box, composting, bicycles, 

insulation, Toxic Taxi, expensive 

light bulbs, health foods--th~se are 

just some of the things that come to 

mind when we think of how" green" 

ideas are effecting our lives in the 

city. 

A lot of what goes on in Kensington 

Market is basic "green city" 

stuff, from the low-tech no-packag- · 

ing standa_rds in many of our shops 

to our community health programmes. 

Strong, dynamic neighbourhoods 

are what "green city" is 

all about, and this is one of the 

strongest in Toronto. 

The idea of Toronto Bioregion 

Week is to connect our commu·nities 

and the way we live here in 

the city to the health and cleaning 

up ("ecological restoration") of the 

whole greater Toronto bioregion. 

The bioregion is an area defined by 

a watershed, where all the rivers 

and streams are connected, that has 

plants ai}d animals, agriculture, 

landforms, soil, and climate in 

commbn. In our case it's defined 

by the Niagara Escarpment to the 

west, the Trent watershed to the 

east, the Oakridges Moraine to the 

north, and Lake Ontario to the 

ACTION ON HOSPITAL 

INCINERATION 

HOmNG UP 

See press release, na2:e 2 

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and much much more 

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south. In this watershed, the habits 

of all the people who live here, the 

way they run their families, businesses 

and governments, has a 

direct effect on the health and 

future of all the other people, animals, 

and plailts ( all other living 

things) in this region. 

We may wonder how industry 

in Pickering or development in 

North York can affect us. It's 

simple. We share the same watershed, 

which is just a larger version 

of the good old village well. If r.============:::;, 

developers in North York or the I 

Nuclear Power station in Pickering 

contaminate the air or water out 

there, they are poisoning our well! 

See Our Back Yard page 5 

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last time we reported/2 

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news, views/4,5,6, 7 

environmental/5 

kate 'splace/5 

scrapbook/8,9 

community arts/1 Oc.13 

teen beat/ 10 

leaming with you! 11 

pagan way/12 

poet's corner/13 

entertainment! 14,15 

music notes/15 

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Page Two I March 26 1992 EDITORIAL/LETTERS Kensington Market DRUM 

Talking DRUM 

The following is 

. a press release received 

by DRUM Thursday March 19 1992. 

KENSINGTON MARKET 

RESIDENTS DEMAND 

SHUTDOWN OF HOSPITAL 

INCINERATOR 

FORM GROUP TO END TOXIC 

EMISSIONS FROM SMOKESTACK 

RESIDENTS OF KENSINGTON MARKET AND 

NEARBY NEIGHBOURHOODS HAVE FORMED 

ACTION ON HOSPITAL INCINERATION (KEN 

SINGTON} (AHI) TO WORK TOWARD THE 

SHUTDOWN OF TORONTO WESTERN.HOSPITAL's 

INCINERATOR. THE TORONTO WESTERN (TWH) 

INCINERATOR OPERATES WITHOUT POLLUTION 

. CONTROLS, BURNING A VARIETY WASTES IN 

CLUDING LARGE QUANTITIES OF CHLORINATED 

PLASTICS THAT RELEASE HIGHLY POISONOUS 

DIOXINS AND HEAVY METALS INTO THE AIR 

WHEN BURNED. THE HOSPITAL EARNS FEES BY 

BURNING BIOMEDICAL WASTE FROM MANY 

OTHER INSTITUTIONS, FUNCTIONING AS A 

REGIONAL FACILITY. 1 

THE TWH IS LOCATED IN A DENSELY 

POPULATED RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOOD. IN 

THE SHADOW OF THE TWH INCINERATOR 

STACK THERE ARE FOUR SCHOOLS, AS WELL AS 

TH~ OPEN-AIR FOOD STALLS OF KENSINGTON .. 

MARKET. ''IT IS OUTRAGEOUS THAT TOXIC 

EMISSIONS FROM THE INCINERATOR ARE CON 

TAMINATING THE COMMUNITY FROM OVERHEAD 

WHILE PEOPLE SEEK TREATMENT FOR ILLNESS 

DOWNSTAIRS," SAYS DEBORAH COWMAN, A 

SPOKEPERSON FOR AHI. "TORONTO WESTERN 

SHOULDN'T BE MAKING A BUSINESS OF WASTE 

DISPOSAL, PARTICL{LARLY NOT AT THE EXPENSE 

OF PUBLIC HEALTH, II 

AHI HAS ALREADY MET WITH THE 

HOSPITAL, LOCAL POLITICIANS AND MINISTRY 

OFFICIALS. SOON THE GROUP WILL LAUNCH A 

CAMPAIGN TO MOBILIZE LOCAL SUPPORT FOR A 

SHUTDOWN OF THE INCINERATOR, AND A MOVE 

TO NON-POLLUTING METHODS OF WASTE DIS 

POSAL AT TORONTO WESTERN. 

PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE REGULA 

TIONS WOULD FORCE THE OLD INCINERATORS 

TO BE PHASED OUT OVER THE NEXT FEW 

YEARS. IN THE MEAN TIME, HOWEVER, SHOULD 

COMMUNITIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT CON 

TINUE TO BE EXPOSED TO THESE UNACCEPT 

ABLJ~: TOXIC EMISSIONS? "WE WANT THE HOSPI 

TAL TO ACT NOW, TO BE ECOLOGICALLY RES 

PONSIBLE AND TO STOP POISONING THE NEIGH 

BOURHOOD. WE ARE NOT WILLING TO ·oo 

THROUGH ANOTHER SUMMER WATCHING THE 

HEAVY METAL DUST SETTLE ON OUR GAR 

DENS, II SAYS LESIA OLEXANDRA, A LOCAL 

RESIDENT AND MEMBER OF AHI. 

FoR FURTHER INFORMATION: 

DEBORAH COWMAN, 368-0407 

Last Time 

Reported 

••••••••••••••••••••• 

lAST TIME 

WE REPORTED 

we 

•Arson had been 

confirmed as the · cause 

of last month's Baldwin 

Street fire 

No comment from police 

as to leads. But the 

repercussions, and 

rebuilding, have started, 

see News Roundup, p. 6; 

Scrapbook, p. 8/9. . 

• T h· a t n o t o r i o u s 

nightclub KCs had been 

hit hard in a Metro 

Police raid 

And now appears to be 

closed. See cover photo, · 

News Roundup. 

•That Metro Coun'cil 

was facing tough 

choices re budget cuts. 

Facing was maybe too 

strong a word. 

•That local action on 

hospital incineration was 

hotting up. 

Nice logo. 

" 

•that the proposed 

Spadina LRT- wa.s 

looking more like simple 

streetcar every day. 

Provincial . Environment 

Minister Grier's warning 

that she intends to 

approve the LRT "with 

conditions" makes the 

"simple streetc,ar" 

solution even more 

likely. See Other 

People's Mail, page 3. 

•That with future 

directions in health care · 

in the province very 

uncertain, Toronto 

hospital had decided to 

shelve its development 

plans for Western for 

now. 

So the City has 

disbanded the hospital 

community work group. 

See News Roundup p. 6. 

•That the Kensington 

Task Force would likely 

fall victim to City budget 

cuts. 

Yup. Full assessment in 

our May paper. 

•That the proposed 

widening of St. Andrews 

would come up at 

Council in March. 

And did. See News 

Roundup. 

•That trouble was 

brewing over Blue (the 

recycling program) 

Much more info. in May. 

With friencfs like the soft - 

drink - manufacturers 

association; who needs 

enemies? 

•That in · the wake of 

Rebelos closing at 60 

Kensington, Kate was in 

search of a reliable 

catfood supply . 

Meanwhile she's 

stumbled on some fishy 

banking. See Kensington 

Place, page 5. 

•That SCAT CABARET 

was back for another 

season, hooray! 

Yes (ndeed, but we 

didn't tell you where, so 

to make amends ... L TWR 

is proud to present ..... 

------------------ PRESS RELEASE:SCADDING COURT AND MIXED COMPANY Tl!EA7RE PRESENT 

.,. SCAT 

CABARET 

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seal calJliret returns to Scadding Court Community Centre 

Thursday April 9 with the first could-be-annual SPRING 

FLING. The children's choir, music theatre group and 

several soloists from the University Settlement Music School 

will perform, joined by Greg Hornblast, Zeko the Clown, 

and more. As always, free coffee, juice and snacks on hand. 

Pay what you r;an, ifyou can. Welcome spring with the 

community cabaret, the people's cabaret, your cabaret- 

SCAT CABARET. 

April 16.: singer/songwriter Eric ·shockett, folk guitarist 

Rob Joy, show tune specialists Liz and the Girls, comedian 

David Roche,· 

April 23, singer/songwriter Eliot Nile and singer Coli/1. 

Puffer, along with comedian Edgar George. 

April 30, Mayday's eve, WIWCAT SCAT--songs ofwork 

and protest, host Smokey George is inviting his Wobblie 

brothers and sisters to join him for a very special evening to 

ring in the traditional workers holdiay and help kick off the 

May Works Festival. Confirmed so far are Rick Fielding, 

Len Wallace· and Tim Maxwell. 

- SCAT CABARET--every Thursday from April 9 at 7PM at 

Scadding Court (Bathurst and Dundas). And remember, the 

stage is always open for you. · 

., 

J. 

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Kensington Market DRUM EDITORIAL/LETTERS March 26 1992 I Page Three 

Letters to DRUM 

Box 67590 

57 6 Dundas Street West 

Toronto MST 3B8 

published. Unless stated here, letters are published in their entirety. 

$1.4M 

BUY 

BUGS 

READER 

5. what happen to the space 

on Bellevue, are they Empire 

Building? 

recently nearly completely 

rebuilt office building that 

filled all . of St. Stephen's 

conditions 

2. what kind of furnishings 

were bought -for $56,000? 

(did they go to the Art 

Shoppe?) 

3. if the needs of the com 

Music School recently-formed · Balkan Dear Editor: reSt. Stephen's 

choral group. · 

House 

thanks you · we are here to serve the - As a taxpayer I was angry munity are not known now, Anyway something does 

Dear Drum, . local community so please to read (Dec. 12th, 199~, 

I would hke to extend help us- do this as well as Drum) that ~t.. Stephen s 

thanks to all members of the possible by getting in touch purchased a bmldm_g ?n Harlocal 

down_town community with us, by joining our bord St. for 1.4 million dolwho 

have given such tremen- groups, by learning an instru- lars. 

dous support to the Univer- ment, or by coming to a My concerns are as falsity 

Settlement Music School concert. We welcome your lows: . 

over the past months. Our enquiries and we value your 1. why w~s $135,000 worth 

World Music and Dance participation. · of renovations needed on a 

night on March 4th was a 

thrilling occasion where over Annette Sanger 

200 people came -along to Mu~ic S~hool Director 

hear our students and guests Vmver:my Settlement House 

perform music and dance · 

from Africa, India, Tibet, the Bone to pick 

Caribbean, . South America 

and of course, not forgetting, Dear fauna fanciers 

North America. 

It's fun to feed 'the local 

Due to the dedication of our park wildlife but please don't 

student~, teach~rs and_ volun- put chicken bones out for the 

teers this year IS turmng out animals to eat. Last week my 

to be ~ busy and successful dog· got seriously ill from 

one, with enrolment up and eating some before I could 

exciting new pro_gr~ms .avail- stop her. It lures the dogs 

able. However,. It IS still not away from their own yards, 

too late to get mvolved- our and it's generally stinky. 

I term continue~ ~n!il June 20. Only rats, dogs and gulls eat 

We wo·,::J.lc. pamrularly wei- them anyway, · so stick to 

come new students m our stale bread. 

Children's Choir (ages 8-12) 

Music Theatre Group (ages Thanks. 

8-12), Steel Band and our Canine care-giver 

(they are doing a needs survey) 

how can they speculate 

that the space will not be 

adequate in 3-5 years? 

4. it seems that -p(!ying 

$50,000 annua11y in rent is 

cheaper than taxpayers paying 

interest on 

$1,400,000. 

Sometimes I think that this 

city has a lot of community_ 

services that are under-used, 

and maybe a proper audit of 

the delivery of all these 

services is due. 

·not seem right in the purchase 

of this building far 

north of the usual catchment 

area that St. Stephen's traditionally 

serves, I hope the 

Kensington Drum 

this matter. 

Yours truly 

Rose Schwartz 

pursues 

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LRT APPROVAL CONDITIONAL, SAYS GRIER 

I have carefully reviewed your 

concerns, and incorporated many of 

A · if h fi ll · z h these concerns into draft conditions 

the Notice of Approval may be 

given as required by Section 14 of 

the Act. 

verswn o t e o owmg etter as . & 

fr h M' · if h E . of approval which are enclosed .or 

gone . om t e tmstry o t e nvt- , our consideration. 

If you have any questions or 

ronment to each of the people who Y . . ~ concerns regarding the draft conditions 

or the environmental assess 

fit e d o b ')ectwns 

· · t 

o 

the 

. 

,...,,.,,M t I have also enclosed a copy ot 

~ ~ '-''· e ro . 

. . . the Notice of Acceptance of the 

Spadma LRT envtronmental report. S d' LRT EA Th N t' ment process, please contact Patty 

Murphy or Serge Bastien at the 

Environmental Assessment Branch. 

They can be reached at 440-3450. 

· pa ma . e o Ice 

specifies the date when the minimum 

15-day public review period 

Dear : required by the Environmental 

I wish to acknowledge receipt of Assessment ends. During this 

your submission of (date), 1991 period you may still request a 

requesting a' hearing with respect t6 hearing. · 

the Spadina LRT Environmental At the end of the 15-day period, 

Assessment. 

With this letter, I am informing choices: approve the project,with 

you of my decision to accept the conditions, reject the project or 

environmental assessment docu- require an environmental Assessmerit. 

It is felt that the EA provides ment Board hearing. If no subsufficient 

information upon which missions or requirements for a 

Thank you for your interest in 

this matter. You will be kept 

informed of any subsequent decisions 

regarding this undertaking. 

I will make one of the following Yours sincerely, Ruth Grier 

to base a decision whether or not to hearing are received by the end of 

approvethe undertaking. the 15-day public review period, 

DRUM Editor's note: for Minister 

Grier's proposed "draft conditions" 

see Streetcar page 4. 

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CAFE 

So here I am again, back for my five hundr.ed 

words-worth. For those who missed last month's 

first act, a quick recap. T.R.O.N.N.O. is our 

theme. Bus-shelters and newspapers are our present 

topic. Three daily papers is one too many for a 

slightly Jess than worldclass city, so either the 

Twinkler, the Glob or the Stun is going to have to 

go. Especially since most of what they do is being 

dorie better by bus-shelters anyway (advertising, 

shelter, meeting people, going places, etc.) 

So last time we were blasting away at the 

Twinkler and suggesting that this time we'd take a 

crack at the Glob. But it's hard to kick a .paper 

when it's already down (and make no mistake the 

Glob is down). You can always tell a paper is in _ 

decline when they describe each of their individual 

reporters as a department. And when their hyphenation 

is straight out of WordPerfect 5.1 (like 

DRUM). If this was the Glob, for instance, I'd 

have a by-line describing me as Philibas Terr, 

Satire Reporter. Unless of course I took a leave of 

absence to teach ESL in,Seoul (say that ten times 

fast!), in which case I would be described as the 

Glob's Korean Bureau. 

So, let's leave the poor old Glob alone for a 

while and get back to extolling the virtues of busshelters 

(b.s. for short) instead. 

For example, in the Twinkler, or the Glob, or 

the Stun you could have read recently that wise 

conservationists in Zimbabwe'are cutting the horns 

off rhinos to protect the great beasts from poachers 

who kill them for their horns (for afro-disiacs, you 

see). 

But you'll search in vain in any of those papers 

for info on what the wise conservationists are going 

to do with the millions ~f dollars of horn they've 

lopped. For that info, your best bet is a bus shelter. 

At the King-Spadina b.s. you can hear heated 

debate on the subject any night after 11 pm (when 

the number of buses is now 1/3 fewer than it was 

before the TIC decided to raise fares rather than 

reduGe service). 

And there's no simple answer I'm afraid. Some 

say the wise conservationists should glut the illegal 

market for rhino horn, driving down the price, and 

forcing erstwhile rhino-poachers to turn to pastimes 

like gun-running to make money. But some say it 

won't work because powdered horn from a living 

rhino isn't a turn-on. 

Best b.s. suggestion to date. Do with the hom 

what the Metro Poiice do with confiscated narcotics. 

Burn the Jot (wrapped in plastic bags of 

course) in the Toronto Western hospital ·incinerator. 

That'll show 'em. 

And speaking of wrapping, my faithful reader 

will remember that last time I assailed one b.s. ad 

in particular (it's 9 am and do you know where 

your employee is?). Well I've found a whole series 

of b.s. ads worse. 

They each feature a jock or jockette, lying or 

squatting, with every inch of exposed skin labelled 

exactly like butcher's charts. Each label in this case 

extols a virtue of the advertised product, rather 

than where to sink the knife. 

The message--use this product to be like this 

hunk or hunkette. . 

My beef? the product being advertised is milk. 

The problem? well think about it. All shall be 

re-vealed. 

See you next time.

Page Four I March 26 1992 

NEWS 

Kensington Market DRUM 

wish -to remain in Kensington for Deborah Cowman is another 

its social, political and economical member of Action on Hospital 

benefits. But Smith admits, "My Incineration. Cowman believes that 

knowledge of the risks are increas- new incinerator regulations-curing 

to the point thl!t I'm prepared to rently being reviewed by t?e. Minis~ 

move. I an thinking, "this is not an try of Health and the Mm1stry of 

acceptable risk". 

Environment - will lead to the 

In a letter published in Feb- closure of the Western Toronto 

mary's Kensington Drum" Toronto Hospital incinerator. However, she 

Hospital president Allan Hudson ' worries that a ministry proposal 

asserted that the incinerator meets will take five or six years to come 

all cu.rrent emission standards. He into.effect. 

·added that he ."would be happy to Cowman and Action on .Hospital 

address a,ny problem which might Incineration have three main goals 

suggest that we were substandard". for the Western Toronto Hospital in 

"They have not acknowledged the meantime: not burning garbage 

either_ confidentially'· privately or from other hospitals, reducing, 

publicly that there is any problem reusing and recycling in the hospiarid 

that was what was so infuriat- tal, and using alternative waste 

ing about Allan Hudson's letter",· disposal technology. 

says John Wilbur, a member of "We're thinking very hard and 

Action on Hospital Incineration. educating ourselves as much as we 

The Toronto 

The group of twelve meml:!ers was can on what all of the possible 

Western 

formed last December. Their pri- roads out there are." explains Cowmary 

objective is to have the West- man. "We didn't just show up at 

Hospital 

em Toronto Hospital incinerator the hospital door and say: "look we 

shutdown. 

want that thing shut tomorrow". 

Incinerator 

Wilbur points out that "the David Allen, vice president of 

by A.J. Blauer 

incinerator technology that's being public relations for the Toronto 

used there is so outdated that there Western Hospital, said: "There's no 

is no possibility of making that . alternative, ~we have to do some 

Four globs of black smoke erupt incinerator safe to be burning in a thing with the biomedical waste. 

from the Toronto Western Hospital residential neighbourhood." - He It's pathological waste. It can't · 

incinerator. They spin over and describes the 1973 model incin- go to landfill. No one wants pathoover 

while tumbling down the erator as "a large version of some- logical waste in their home town. 

. incinerator's concrete slopes onto one with a 45 gallon drum in their So the only thing we can do is bum 

the roofs of the houses below. backyard burning plastics." it." 

Seconds later, the smoke is gone, According to the Ministry of When asked about ways to ease 

but from sight only. Environment, the Toronto Western the community's concern, Allen , 

"We have a right to know what Hospital incinerator is operating said, "I don't think there is anywe're 

inhaling." demands Martin within the legal limits for old incin- thing that we can do to appease the 

Smith, who lives just a few hun- erators. However, the same inciner- community, short of a closure." 

dred meters away from the incin- ator could not be built today witherator. 

Smith, a freelance writer out the modem technological feaand 

an environmental activist, joins tures required for new incinerators. 

many other Kensington Market 

residents in _ expressing concern 

over the incinerator's emissions. 

While on a midnight stroll down 

Augusta avenue last November, 

Smith observed a large quantity of 

opaque white smoke descending 

onto the street from the incinerator. 

Smith felt his eyes and mouth bum 

as he walked through the "caustic" 

smoke. A week later, Smith sent a 

letter to the Toronto Board of 

Health, requesting the installation 

of public air quality monitoring 

devices. 

The Toronto Western Hospital 

incinerator is a towering concrete 

smokestack at the comer of 

Leonard and Wales avenues-in the 

heart of Kensington. Every day 

between the hours of 8am ·and 

11 pm. It bums the biomedical 

waste of 21 area hospitals and 

clinics. According to Bob Mann, a 

supervisor at the incinerator, provincial 

emission regulations require 

a smokeless operation. Hospital 

incinerator smoke is recognised by 

the Ontario Ministry of Environment 

as containing dioxins, PCB's, 

mercury and lead. 

"It's landing on the protluce here in 

the market which people buy and. 

eat. It's landing on the soil in the 

playgrounds in the school yards 

where the kids are playing," says 

Smith. He.and his companion Mary 

and the six children they care for 

Lost your blue box? 

call 

392-7742 

and they'll get a new 

one to you. 

Downtown Community 

Health Board 

meets to discuss 

Toronto Western 

Hosoital Incinerator 

The downtown Community Health Board will meet on 

April 13, 6.00 pm at 277 Victoria Street 

(east of Yonge at Dundas) to discuss community concerns 

about the toxic output of the - 

Toronto Western Hospital incinerator. 

Action on Hospital Incineration (Kensington), a local 

volunteer group formed to protest the burning 

of biomedical waste without pollution control on the 

hospital grounds, will present their position 

to the health board. 

The meeting is open to the public and anyone 

wishing to know more about this public health crisi~ 

should attend. 

For more information, call 

Deborah Cowman, Kensington resident, at 3B3-0407 

CONDITIONS: 

SIMPLE STREETCAR CLOSE 

SPADINA LRT PROPOSED TERMS AND CONDITIONS 

1. Except as otherwise provided by these conditions, the undertaking shall 

be .carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Environmental 

Assessment which are incorporated herein by reference. 

SYSTEM ACCESSIBILITY 

2. Every reasonable effort shall be made by the TTC to have all components 

of the Spadina SRT accessible to the disabled on its opening day 

PARKING 

3. Metro and the TTC shall prepare a replacement parking strategy' which 

considers integrating the replacement of the 166 angle parking spaces, that 

are proposed to be removed by the undertaking, with new development in 

the Spadina area. This may be conducted in conjunction with the Parking 

Authority of Toronto and The Corporation of the City of Toronto. 

4. Current allowances for off-peak parallel parking on Spadina Avenue south 

of Queen Street shall be maintained (as indicated in the EA). 

SPADINA STATION 

5. The TTC shall make available to the public its update to the cost of the 

proposed underground Spadina Station. 

TRANSIT STOPS 

6. The TTC shall review further with the affected communities the number 

of stops and may incr!Jase the number of stops, including ancillary changes, 

as a result 

STREETS CAPE 

7. The streetscape design study shall be developed by the TTC and Metro 

in consultation with the-affected communities including local businesses, 

residents, and the City of Toronto. 

8. The streetscape design study shall be directed by a Technical Committee 

made up of the following officials or their appointed designates: 

-the Commissioners of Metropolitan Toronto's Planning and Transportation 

Departments; 

- the General Manager of TTC's Engineering and Maintenance Branch; and 

- if they consent, the Commissioners of the Corporation of the City of 

Toronto's Planning and Development Department and Public Works and the 

Environment Department. 

9. With the agreement of the members of the Technical Committee, the 

functional design of the undertaking may be modified to permit the 

integration of the streetscape design provided the modification does not contradict 

any other condition excluding #1. 

BICYCLES 

10. The safety of bicycle transportation shall be considered along Spadina 

Avenue. 

SIDEWALKS 

11. There shall be no overall reduction in pedestrian area on Spadina Avenue 

between Bloor and Queen Streets. 

12. 1 A minimum of 90>% of the public pedestrian ar-ea so~th -of Queen 

_Street shall be retained. ·' . .:;: '.' 

12. 2 The average width of public sidewalks south of Queen Street on the 

east side shall not be less than 4.6 m: The existing average width is 4.9 m. 

12.3 The average width of·public sidew'alks south of Queen Street on the 

west side shall not be less than 4.0 m. The existing average width is 4.9 m. 

13. The design changes to accommodate the changes to the sidewalk 

widths and any changes resulting therefrom~ shall be incorporated in the final 

streetscape design by Metro and the TTC and submitted to MOE EA Branch 

to be filed in the public record. 

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AT SPADINA CRESCENT 

14. Metro shall conduct a detailed pedestrian safety study for Spadina 

Crescent considering present and future use scenarios. If opportunity and 

economies are afforded by the construction activity of the LRT, then they 

should be pursued by Metro to provide a safe accessible pedest'rian crossing 

to 1 Spadina Crescent. 

NOISE & VIBRATION 

15. Prior to the commencement of construction and the completion of 

detailed construction design the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) shall 

finalize a .noise and vibration protocol with the Ministry of the Environment 

(MOE). TTC shall provide for the review and acceptance of the MOE Noise 

Assessment and Systems Support Unit a report documenting how the 

concerns in the MOE-technical review of July 10, 1991, have been resolved 

in accordance with the finalized TTC/MOE noise and vibration protocol. 

16. Every reasonable effort shall be made by. the TTC to minimize the noise 

and vibration impacts of the LRT through the use of state-of-the-art technology 

and operating procedures. Noise and vibration (including wheel 

squeal)pn Spadina Crescent shall be monitored before, during and after 

construction and operation of the system. 

RIGHT-OF-WAY 

18. 1 The design of the undertaking shall ensure that the vertical separation 

of the grade of the right-of-way from the grade of the adjacent portion 

of the street used by the public for vehicle traffic shall not exceed 50mm (2 

inches) 

18.2 There shall be no vertical separation at street intersections or where 

the urban design features delineate the right-.of-way. 

18.3 Conditions 18.1 and 18.2 do not prevent any grading required for 

drainage purposes. 

18.4 Conditions 18.1 and 18.2 do not prevent any platforms or urban 

design features, which separate the part of the right-of-way used by the TTC 

. vehicles from the adjacent portion of the street used by the public for vehicle 

traffic, from being built. 

TURN PROVISION , 

19. Left turns from northbound Spadina Avenue into Camden Street shall be 

allowed (as indicated in the EA.) 

DRUM Editors note on the Environmental assessment 

process. From here on, only people who have already 

registered concerns about the LRT with the ministry of the 

environment are notified of developments. That group will 

meet in the first week of April to see how far they can go 

towards supporting these conditions (or suggesting changes 

to them). They must reply to the Minister by April 12. 

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Kensington Market DRUM NEWS AND VIEWS March 26 1992 I Page Five 

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KENSINGTON ENVIRONMENTAL 

Peace dividend denied 

Canadians were denied a longawaited 

Peace Dividend last month 

when Finance Minister Don Mazankowski 

released the federal government's 

1992-93 annual budget. 

Momentous global changes have 

redefined Canada's security needs 

'' yet the government refuses to cutback 

let alone trim Canada's Cold 

'' War military budget of $12.1 billion 

( 1991 ). While defence planners 

have reduced their projected spending, 

the Department of Defence's 

actual budget will continue to rise 

~ 1 slightly each year for the next three 

years. These government priorities 

are unfathomable in the face of 

Canada's growing economic diffi- 

,, culties, social needs and environmental 

problems. "To keep driving 

up Canada's $13 billion defence 

budget in the light of a transformed 

'' world," Douglas Roche, Canada's 

former Ambassador for Disarmaby 

Jerome Cheung 

ment says, "is political and economic 

crassness of the highest 

order". 

Meanwhile sociai, environmental 

and international development 

aid programs are reeling from 

cutbacks made in that same budget. 

Experts in these fields are shocked 

by misplaced government priorities. 

for instance, a modest 8% cut in 

military spending would have 

doubled the budget of the Ministry 

of Environment. A 24% cut would 

have doubled Canada's overall aid 

to developing countries. 

How we respond to the end of 

the Cold War will define what- we 

as Canadia~s believe in peace. A 

reassessment of our military budget 

-- oriented for decades towards an 

East-West global conflict-- is long 

overdue. Cut the military budget 

and produce a Peace Dividend. 

_ Jerome Cheung is coordinator of 

the Toronto Disarmament Nnetwork 

UPDATE: GARBAGE ACTION 

The Kensington Garbage Action . Group can 

now be found, sharing offices with DRUM 

_and the Southern Africa Support and 

Information Centre at Centre 276 (276 

Augusta Avenue). Plans include setting up a 

market clearing-house for information on · 

local waste-reduction (including setting up a 

proj~ct to encourage cardboard collection in 

th6-corri·raercial market). Phone 966-4059 

for Centre news. 

FOOD ACTION PROJECT 

THE FOOD ACTION 

*Would you be interested 

in obtaining good food at 

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PROJECT can help you 

low cost? 

and your community 

* Are you a single person 

with free information 

or a family having a hard 

and what you need 

time on a limited income? 

to start up: 

* Are you interested in 

•Food Buying Clubs 

building community spirit 

•Community Gardens 

and getting to know your 

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•Pick-Your-Own Trips 

neighbours? 

•Community Kitchens 

* Do you think you would 

enjoy a group trip to a farm Anyone can do it[ 

to pick your own cheap and 

Contact: 

fresh vegetables and fruit? 

Michele MacKenzie 

* Are you an apartment 

at the 

dweller with no space for a 

Food Action Project 

garden? . , 392-6655 

*Would you like to learn to 

(please leave a message and 

garden or do you already your call will be returned) 

have skills? 

The choice is yours. · 

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~ \ 'r Y 0 li Why spend time and energy looking for alternative 

~:~ ,(' 0 products and services if it means supporting 

\ corporate interests? Make a complete switch! 

{) ~ For alternative products, consultations and 

'"i referrals for the social change community, call us 

0 • 1:'1 orvisitournewrecyclingdepotat 14MarkhamSt. 

~~A . (oneblockWestofQueenandBathurst) - 

"'JV ~us? .Ii~e 

. . "they're giVmg away free money. Instead I said this I me IS 

.canadt~ Actwn. for for people on Family Benefits. We're picking up our 

Nicaragua lS planmng an cheques." . It elicited a cringing away motion from them and a 

environmental hasty retreat. It might be catching.-One guy stood at the end of 

work/study.tour to the1ine for a few moments. F ... This! and stomped off. I wish 

N . A t 13 t I could have done the same. 

tcaragua ugus 0 It seems the banks are in control of my life. They're 

September 3. 1992. For the only money making operation in the nation. Next to me 

information on how you Archie Bunker spoke to me out of the side of his mouth hand 

can get involved call conspiratorially up to his face, "Look at the colour of the 

CAN t 534 _ 1766 people in this line.". Yeah- prett~ amazing. AU colours. Y~u 

a · and me as well all m the same !me. We are all comrades m 

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NEWS 


REPORT FROM THE GRANGE 

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by Doug Hum 

There have been a number of 

meetings which included the major 

Princess Margaret Hospital >take holders in the area including 

Reviewed · :he Orde School Parents' Council. 

The Ministry of Health earlier this A~ these _meetings, the parents 

year announced a review of hospital ra1sed senous ~oncerns ~or the 

capital projects in light of provin- safety of_ the chlidren ?unng the 

cial restraints. This review included constructiOn and operation of the 

the proposed relocation of the hospital if the hospital were to 

Princess Margaret Hospital and it proceed following the. review. 

put on hold funding for the pro- The parents felt that their conposed 

hospital until the review is cerns were not reflected in· any of 

completed. The review is expected the three design pmposals develto 

be completed early this spring. oped by the consultant. The traftic 

The parents are hoping that the flow in front of tlie school would 

review will incorporate many of increase some forty percent and this 

their concerns which the planning was unacceptable to the parents. 

process leading up to ..M-!e appr~val They had requested that Orde Street 

of this site had failed to do. be closed at Murray following the 

In the meantime, the consultant same design for Ogden School 

retained by the City of Toronto in nearby on Phoebe Street. The 

the fall of last year continued his consultant did_ not incorporate this 

work on proposals to replace the request into their design and the 

small park that would be lost parents are now approaching the 

through the relocation of the hospi- Toronto Board of Education for 

tal and the alleviation of some of support for the closure of Orde 

the potential traffic hazards for the Street. Further meeting with the 

children. 

consultant will be .taking place. 

Lion dance at Orde 

Walk against Men's Violence 

by DRUM Staff 

Orde School Lunar New Year 

Celebration-Full House 

Orde School celebrated the Lunar 

New Year on February 6th with a 

full ho4se standing room attendance 

of parents, grandparents, staff and 

friends. Performances of songs, 

instrumental music and dances by 

the children from the various cultural 

groups withi.n the schooi were 

warmly and enthusiastically greeted 

by a most appreciative audience. In 

the four years that this writer has 

attended the celebrations, this year's 

celebration represented one of 

the premium performances by the 

school children. 

The performances included the 

traditional Lion Dance; the English, 

French and Chinese Choirs; the 

instrumental groups of band, strings 

and recorders; the ensembles of the 

Primary and Junior Folk and Spanish 

Dancers; and the Black Studies 

ensemble. The event celebrates the 

cultural diversity of the school and 

the richness that diversity brings to 

the school community. In the year 

of the Monkey, this was a most 

successful event. 

' On April 4, a small group of men 

will set out from Windsor on a sixweek 

trek to Toronto, during which 

they will speak to tens of thousands 

of men in schools, churches, labour 

halls, in downtown business areas, 

at plant gates, and along the highways 

themselves. The group, Men 

Walking Against Male Violence, is 

calling upon all men to take responsibility 

for the violence we commit dreds of women's groups and indion 

a daily basis, violence that spans vidual women from across Ontario 

a broad continuum that includes and endorsed by scores of labour, 

physical assault, sexual harassment, church, educational, and women's 

sexist jokes, earning 30-35% more support organizations, arrives in 

than women in the same occupa- Toronto F:riday, May 8, and all 

tion, and the silence of male bond- people are invited to join the walk 

ing that we hide behind rather than down Yonge Street that afternoon. 

address these inequities. 

This fall, a walk will set out from 

Having acknowledged that we Toronto and head to Ottawa; other 

are part of the problem, the walks walks originating in Sudbury and 

. l call on men to· take a public stand Sarnia are planned for 1993 and 

I fl...--~.....-..-......,........-...r-..._.....--...,. ,\and begin working. to end this 1994. 

) A ,rRE£ C~•AEJ) violence. At a time when 70% of To send off the walkers, there 

i· AD 1 s ~N~tc:AL women surveyed by the Toronto will be a special concert with Holly 

1 _ • Star do not feel safe walking at Near Wednesday ,April 1st. at 7:30 

! WAV Tb ll,r;#JJr night; one in three ·women faces .pm at Trinity St. Paul's, 427 Bloor 

1 ~+ Reom !!J sexual assault at some time in her SL W. For ticket info~ation or 

life, us~lly by someone' she details on corning into Toronto with 

knows; -and rape crisis and sexual the walkers,' call (416) 651-5930. 

assault centres are overflowing with And on Tuesday, May 12, at 

requests for help, it is crucial that 7:30 pm. the Very Rev. Lois 

men break their silence and speak Wilson and Archbishop Ted Scott, 

out. . speak on Ending Violence Against 

The walk, built with continual Women at St. Paul's Anglican 

.4- II " ... n ' I , I I y ~ consultation and- input from hun- Church, 229 Bloor St. East. FREE 

Baldwin ./ire aftermath. Skylight, anyone? 

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CITY APPROVES ST ANDREW ROAD WIDENING 

AGREES TO FURTHER DISCUSSIONS ON HOW 

With the Parking Authority stating categorically that 

they would refuse to expand the Baldwin/St. Andrew 

garage unless the City widens St. Andrew street, City 

Council approved the widening March 25. About 15 

feet will . have to be found, to create one extra lane. 

City's preferred plan is take the 1 5 feet off the south 

side only, but commissioner of public works Vardin 

has agreed to meet in mid-April to discuss a KMBA 

plan to take some off both sides. 

NO FURTHER COMMENT FROM 14 DIVISION ON 

KCs RAID AFTERMATH 

14 division had no further comment to make on the 

raid on KCs club which led to charges against more 

than 30 individuals last month, exc~pt to sa ~ that it is 

higfhly unlikely that police would proce~d with 

attempting to ge.t a licencing commission hearing 

against the owner of the club if, as appears to be the 

case, the club has closed down. In any event, a police 

spokesperson said, a licencing commission hearing 

would not .take place until all criminal chargeds had 

been disposed of, and this case would likely take a 

long while because of the number of people charged 

, and the •number of offences. · 

OXFORD/BELLEVUE MOONIES ON THE MOVE? 

More even than the for sale signs on the building, the 

· sidewalk sales by the occupants in the late fall 

indicated that 87 Bellevue, for fourteen years owned 

and occupied by the Unification church of Rev Sun 

./ Myung Mooon, is about to change hands again. The 

"moonies" as they are widely called were regarded 

with a fair bit of suspicion in the early years, but have 

· occupiued the building entirely inconspicuously for the 

past several years, with very little interaction with the 

community. 

THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL? 

In the wake of Environment Canada announcing it will 

post ozone level and ultraviolet radiation warnings for 

Canada this summer, Toronto Parks and Recreation 

Department has said it will allow children at park 

wading pools to wear t-shirts in the water this 

summer, at all outdoor pools. 

TASK FORCE CANNED AS COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL 

As was expected, the city axe fell on the Kensington 

markeCArea Task Force last month. While 

encouraging the. Task Force to continu·e as a 

community-based umbrella organization, the City's 

Neighbourhoeids Committe~ ruled that the task force 

would not continue as a subcommittee of council. 

HOSPITAL WORKGROUP DISBANDED 

Land-Use committee of city council agreed with the 

Toronto Hospital's suggestion that until the hospital 

knows more clearly what its future, and the future of 

health care in the province, is going to be, there is no 

point in the hospital pursuing its plan to redevelop 

Toronto Western. So the community work group set 

. up last September has been dissolved. Observed one 

resident "I love the way they get things backwards at 

the city. It's not the committee that has dissolved. 

It's the hospital as we know it that has dissolved. 

They don't know what they are or what they're going 

to be."

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Willingness to work for 

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Knowledge of 

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Thursday May 7, Meeting 

7 pm . 

Kensington. Community 

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Over the past few years a group of residents in our 

community have been considering 

these types of questions: 

how best can the elderly and· people with disabilities 

live comfortably in their homes for as long as they wish. 

We got together with St. Stephen's Community House 

and started a project to start finding· answers. 

We want you to know about our project and we want 

· and need to hear from you. 

If you live in the 

Kensington Market or Sussex-Ulster areas 

come to a meeting where the community can start 

talking and better yet, be heard. 

THURSDAY MAY 7, 1992 7:00P.M. 

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The gymnasium is wheelchair accessible. 

The meeting will be in English. It will be interpceted into 

Chinese and Portuguese. 

Never mind the snow, spring . 

is spring. 

So maybe this is the year to 

get our collective act together 

on the park, make of it what 

we really want and need (like 

perhaps getting new sand for 

the playground before 

October?) Parks and rec. says 

they'[[ work with us if we'll 

work with them. People 

interested in a park committee 

should contact Alma Penn, c/o 

DRUM. 

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The Market Gourmet 

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fish you want is scarce or expensive you can easily substitute 

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1 teaspoon chopped fresh ginger 

1 large onion chopped 

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1 clove of garlic chopped 

1 teaspoon paprika 

1 teaspoon salt 

2 dashes of Szechuansauce 

The Recipe 

1 . Simmer all ingredients except shrimps for five minutes. 

2. Blanch the shrimp (boil for one minute). 

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RACISM 

by Shelly Stringer 

Have you ever heard of something happening in 

the news that you· couldn't believe. I kAow I did. 

I could never believe that people would go beat . 

up on a person for no reason at all other than his 

race. Well now I do but I still can't believe why 

people would do that. Today at school at 2:00 I 

was at my locker--beside me two guys from India 

were talking when a group of Asian guys ran up 

and began hitting them, they hit one guy in the 

nose and the other got away unhurt. A teacher in 

my School stopped them. The Asian guys . got 

away by running down the hall. It was the first 

time I ever saw this and to tell the tn..Jth I don't 

understand why? All people are equal, what they 

look like, how they speak or the race should. not 

matter. I grew up in a racist home. My ·stepfather 

would beat me if I was seen with any 

person that was not "white" but I didn't pay 

much attention.! myself don't think of myself as 

white. I don't think of Jamaicans as Black I think 

of myself as a person as well I think of ~ 

friends as people not black or white. I don't really 

get how young people of today could be racist 

because in today's day and age you can't really 

go somewhere and see one single race. Everywhere 

you can go to apply for a job they'll have 

more than one race. The Charter of rights says 

"you have the right not to be discriminated 

because of sex, race, sexual preference, lifestyle, 

or income". Which basically means if yqu apply 

for a job and you are qualified they can't say you 

can't have the job because of your race. Everyone 

in this world is equal and people should not 

be thought about as a white person, black person, 

Asian person they should be thought about 

as oeoole. 

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Dear Steve, I would do 

anything for you from 

the bottom of my heart 

because I'm so much in 

love with you. You 

mean more to me than 

anything else. Love 

always, Cheryl Young. 

Kiss. 

I love you 

has been said so many 

times before 

but for all the times it's 

been said , 

no one has meant it 

more. 

Whe~ I say I love you 

I mean it in every way 

I love you for the way 

you look 

and for what you do and 

~ay. ~ 

Donna E. Esposito 

COMMUNITY/ARTS 

Oliver 

by Lina Milanovic 

Almost three years have passed since you went a~ay; 

.sometimes it seems no more than just a few days. · 

You always brought laughter whenever you were near, 

now there's no more laughter, there is nothing to hear. 

· Eyes so full of excitement and joy, 

all taken away from just a little boy. 

When I think of old times, I may sometimes weep, 

but I know peace has come to you in your everlasting 

sleep. 

One little boy so innocent and pure, 

so much time and not even a cure. 

There were so many questions .and never any answers, 

you were taken away by the disease known as Cancer. 

A mind so innocent, it never knew wrong, 

but you learned very quickly how to be strong. 

You always tried to lead a normal life, 

even though som~times the pain was too concise. 

Through both bad times and through good, 

you grew up quickly into manhood. 

When kids made fun of you yQu didn't cry, 

'instead you always held your head up high. 

The Metro Toronto 

Association for Community 

living needs 

people willing to spend 

a few hours a week 

with a person with a 

developmental disability. 

Call Volunteer 

Services, 968-0650. 

· To Steve P. 

Funny 

Funny how it always 

seems 

I'm left alone with all 

my dreams. 

Though my dreams are 

very few, 

funny how they're all of 

you. 

from Heidi L. 

Dear Keith, Hello, how 

are you? Well the last 

time I talked you were 

real!)' sick so I am 

Writing just to say hi and 

to see how you're doing. 

I ))ope that you're 

feeling better soon. 

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Barbara Anne Quigle.y: 

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Page Twelve I March 26 1992 

COMMUNITY 


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PAGAN WAY 

by Pamela A. Brown 

I was offered the opportunity 

to stage manage for the 

Windsor Feminist Theatre. 

The were doing The 

Cassandra Project and free 

government money had 

brought them two women 

experienced in workshop 

process and forum theatre. 

The first half of the project 

was focused on us, as 

women, defining what 

keeps us silent. Through 

all kinds of exercises we 

brought this aspect of 

oppression into the light 

and examined it. It was an 

exploration of "what is not 

being said; why it is not 

being said; what is not 

being heard; why is it not 

being heard." For me it 

was a very enlightening 

experience on every level 

possible. 

Until then, my opinion 

of feminists was the result 

of successful media manipulation 

and popular 

thought: they were women 

who hate men and rant 

about oppression that can't 

possibly exist. Well, I 

could vote, right? 

Then one night we 

presented three short plays 

that had evolved from our 

· exploration. Each one 

showed a woman not spea- 

_·king or not being heard and 

consequently being 

oppressed. For example, 

in one, a woman who 

works in a factory is forbidden 

to sit down when 

chairs are available. She 

complains to another 

woman,· but not to the 

foreman. The second 

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Members of the audience 

were invited to take 

the role of the second 

woman and overcome the 

oppression. A couple actually 

. got a chair without 

being fired - and everyone 

got to feel oppression in a 

controlled space. Afterwards 

we had a discussion · 

and , there was one man 

there who had a lqt to say. 

He claimed, among other 

things, to have never 

exploited a woman - or 

discriminated against a 

woman. I personally knew 

he frequented a local strip 

bar, and later I found out 

from other women there 

that he abused his girlfriend · 

(who was with him at the 

show). But none of us said 

a word. 

That night I finally 

understood oppression, and 

from then on I've called 

myself a feminist. 

One of the two women 

who came via grant money 

was a healer who did a lot 

of body work with us. She 

helped us connect our 

· bodies and spirits back 

together and showed us 

ways to overcome that 

feeling of being fractured. 

She introduced us to ritual 

and 'chanting during these 

workshops, along with 

m~ny other elements of 

WlCCa. 

One night, as we sat in a 

circle discussing our work, 

the conversation lead her to 

circle her hands around her 

belly and say, "life is not 

the only thing a woman can 

create." Something went 

snap, crackle, pop inside 

me when she said that, and 

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read and experienced gave 

definition to a whole sec-· 

tiori of my being that nothing 

before would even 

acknowledge. 

I have tried to share what it 

was in me as an individual, 

and as woman,' that event- . 

ually connected me to 

wicca. It is very hard to 

articulate. It means a lot to 

me that it was in women-- 

. only space that it happened 

a space _ in which : 

oppression was revealed 

and exorcised from our 

bodies and minds. I think 

the following/ quote from 

The Great Cosmic Mother 

by Monica Sjoo and , Barbara 

Mor is very appropriate: 

... one could say that 

large masses of people 

are being forcibly 

retained; and maintained, 

at the level of the 

reptile brain--the brain 

of ritualized repetition 

and benumbed violence; 

kundalini [awareness, 

enlightenment] is not 

allowed, by primarily 

moral restrictions, to 

rise up and illuminate 

this situation. Indeed, 

the reptile ·brain is kept 

strangely hypnotized, 

from the outside, by 

mass-produced dreams 

and commercial hallucinations 

of transcendence: 

the luminosity is 

on the entertainment 

screen, while the evolutionary 

brain sits in 

darkness. (p. 362) 

It is wicca that gives/ me 

the tools to stay out of the 

darkness. 

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Friday, 10-6, Saturday, 9-5 

Sunday 1.30-5 (through April). 

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English, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish 

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Library renovations. 

We are now fully accessible for people with disabilities. 

We are sorry Jor any inconvenience you may have had 

during the month that we were closed for these renovations. 

Watch out for the following in April: 

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by Alice Brownlee. Thursday April 23rd at 2 pm. 

Free! For the whole family. 

• Teens babysitting course 

what every babysitter should know 

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Saturday April 25, 1992, 9.a.rri. - 4 pm 

Free lunch will be served. Ages: 11 years and up. 

Sign up at the front desk. Registration limited. No charge. 

• Young People, Teen writing club 

, Writing poetry, short stories, etc. just for the fun of it. 

No experience necessary. Saturday afternoons. 

Two Saturdays per month. Please call branch. 

• Adult writing group 

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Bear Pause launch 

a hearty party 

by Angie Choly 

Friday March 6 I attended a book 

launch/poetry reading held at The 

Last Temptation located on Kensington 

Ave. The reading was 

given by Nancy Woods, a resident · 

here in the Market. This was Nancy's 

1st poetry reading to celebrate 

both her newly published book 

entitled "BEAR PAUSE'' along 

with her son Nistum's 21st birthday. 

And a celebration it was. 

May Pham co-owner,ofthe Last 

Temptation, along with her partner/husband 

William, provided the 

space in the back room for the 

,, reading, and it was sponsored by 

the Native Studies Comittee in 

conjunction with Alpha Downtown 

Alternative School. 

' 1 pected. . . . ' 

She made mention of the fact 

that this was the first time her 

immediate family were all together· 

in the same room and introduced 

11 them to her friends comprising 

mostly artists and musicians. Just to 

name-drop a few: those spotted at 

,, the event were artist Carol Walker 

I·· 

f' ,, 

(who I'm told helped construct the 

giant birthday cake), artists Runt, 

and Rob McGirr (discussing 

whether they should have more 

beer), Charlie Huisken (owner of 

This Ain't the Rosedale Library) 

was also seen munching on taco 

chips along with s~n Jessie and 

their friend Tom Kane, who was 

offering copies of Nancy's book for 

sale at one of the corner tables. 

I grabbed the opportunity to 

speak with Nancy who was busy 

non-stop laughing and chatting to a 

seemingly endless stream of wellwishers. 

And I learned that 

although this was her tirst published 

poetry book, she has had her 

poems published in Poetry Toroflfo, 

and Trickster Magazine. "I really 

had to come out of the closet with 

my poetry", she said, meaning that 

this was an extremely hard feat for 

her to accomplish. She cited Mary 

Fish as an inspiration and for sup- 

I arrived early and good thing 

too because the room quickly filled 

to standing room capacity. 

Nancy arrived waving beer 

tickets in the air and with a hearty 

laugh called out "who wants a 

beer" and from there she proceeded 

to transform the evening into an 

event well worth attending. Her 

generosity of spirit created a climate 

of welcome and the unexport. 

· 

She has been writing since she 

was 17 years old, "that's 30 years," 

she said, quite frankly. "I'm crazy 

and that's how crazy people write", 

referring to her poetry book. 

Nancy Woods is an Ojibwa; born 

in Sturgeon Falls, who "never 

strays above College Street these 

days, except to go to work." She 

has been the advertising director 

for Sweetgrass Art's Publishing 

located here in Toronto, is active in 

Church of 

Saint Stephen-in-the-Fiel 

Anglican 

103 Bellevue Avenue 

Week and Easter 

Church~of Saint Stephen~in-the-Fields · 

(Anglican) · 

Sunday, April 12: 

Sunday of the Passion, 

. with liturgy of the Palms 

(Solemn Procession and Sung Eucharist) 

Services at 8:30 and 11:15 a.m. 

Thursday April 16: 

Maundy-Thursday, 

dinner at 6:00p.m. 

followed by Holy Eucharist 

with washing of feet 

Friday, April17: 

Good Friday, 12 noon: 

celebration of the Lord's Passion 

Saturday, April 18: 

Holy Saturday 

Matins at 10:30 a.m. 

The Great Vigil of Easter at 9:30p.m. 

Sunday, April 19: 

Sunday of the Resurrection, Easter Day 

Renewal of Baptismal Vows 

and Eucharist at 6:00a.m. 

Sung Eucharist 11: 15 a.m. 

Saturdays in Lent and Eastertide: Vespers at 7:00p.m. 

All Welcome 

Further Information: 921 ~6350 

H,onor Mother Earth Day and does 

various things in conjunction with 

U. ofT. Radio, inCluding co-hosting 

and interviews. 

She has also held workshops in 

storytelling, poetry, and constructions 

of traditional home building at 

Alpha alternative school. 

Well, back to the reading. 

The reading got off to a slow start. 

Nancy started to read but the noise 

coming from the front space of the 

restaurant seemed to distract her. 

Someone was dispatched to handle 

the noise factor but in the meantime 

members of the audie[,!ce yelled out 

encouraging words. Then Nancy 

found her stride (and her diaphragm) 

and from there to the end 

she captivatcil the audience with her 

witty dramatic performance. The 

written word came alive. Nancy 

dedicated the reading to her mother 

and started with the poem "Questions 

of Identity"; from there she 

proceeded to rea~ several 

poems from "Bear Pause" including 

the humorous "To a Dancer". The 

reading ended with a giant·layered 

cake (baked by Nancy) being 

brought out resplendent with 

candles and everyone joining in to 

sing happy birthday to Nistum, her 

son. 

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Who worked their fingers to the bone 

scraping up the comforts of life? · , 

Who sawed wood till we were all warm and glowing? 

Who was the charming 

Hostess to all our friends and neighbours 

while we grew into people? 

Who has never once asked for the recognition 

so deserved? 

Who introduced us to the earth, 

taught us to pray, 

to respect ourselves and each other? 

EWhom do we love for giving 

us all that? 

Where did we get our heart? 

Who gave us the drun1 of 

our being? 

If you don't 

know by now, 

I aint telling 

you 

stupid ... 

"Questions of Identity" from Bear Pause by Nancy Woods, 

published by Charasee Press, 1991 

Last words I heard from Nancy 

was "let's all go over and see 

Johnny at the Greeks". I laughed 

"all 60 of us"? Nancy laughed, 

won't Johnny be surprised. About 

20 of the group carried the party on 

to the Greeks later, Nancy amongst 

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For information. call 975-0849 or 978-2391 

You Cfill obtain a copy of Nancy's 

book from This Ain't the Rosedale 

Library located at 483 Church 

Street. If you look for the artists 

credits in the book, they were 

neglected to be included by the 

publisher. For those interested, the ., 

artwork was done by artists Sam 

Burrit, Bruce Duglas, Richard 

Roberts and Ann Barlow. 

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Page Fourteen l March 26 1992 

ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT 


Dark diaspora packed with power: 

child's play raised to adult art 

The cast of The Seaford Tapes: left to right, 

Anthony Scorer; Clare Coulter; Tracy Wright. 

Remembrances, Romance 

· & Speculation: 

The Seaford Tapes 

at Passe Muraille 

by Marty Smith 

The subjective realities of people's 

lives encompass the entire 

performance. The real time span 

of a real conversation over tea, 

wine and photographs becomes 

the set and script to carry us 

through at least a couple of 

generations.[Pre-World War II, 

War, Post War]. Elsie (Clare 

Coulter), Clare (Tracy Wright), 

and Geoffrey (Andrew Scorer) 

introduce us to many friends, 

family members, acquaintances, 

lovers, and even strangers, while 

they view the photps. 

The past and present share 

the stage with the future. Their 

conversation capsulizes Elsie & 

Geoffrey's parents' weddings, as 

well as wine recipes, today's (in 

1984) newspaper story, and "I'll 

be going to church in the 

morning", Geoffrey says. 

Ending the conversation with 

" ... a direct hit on the air raid 

shelter" leads me to believe that 

Clare Coulter's focus for the 

piece is "The last War" as Geoffrey 

says. Hearing the life 

experience of two who lived so 

close to the German Border; the 

pilotless planes that run out of 

fuel and crash, unguided, dumb, 

full of explosives, burning and 

maiming ... the Italian scouts, the 

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~ V-2 rocket, all undoubtedly 

affect her. They are important 

experiences. Hearing ,it is an 

important experience as well. All 

that wai' came to their real lives, 

their real homes and yet their 

lives continued to deal with ordinary 

events during the War. 

For me the true wisdom of 

THE SEAFORD TAPES is the 

portrait of modem relationships, 

the roles, etiquette, conversa-. 

tiona! patterning... in 

male/female interactions. Also 

the poetry in real lives, "happy 

as birds in .the woods" Elsie 

says. 

Reality is the obvious closeness 

of the two women and the 

exiled uselessness of the male. 

Geoffrey is out of step, irrelevant, 

his comments egotistic ... . 

while the women's conversation 

is bonded, .even to the point of 

stroking "his" ego about the 

perfect woman, and his affair of 

one time and his near marriage 

at another time. 

Geoffrey's truest passion and 

real s)laring of importance of his 

life is almost missed, and passed 

over. He attempts to share his 

feelings about his beloved young 

sister, who we really want to 

know more about. He is not 

paying attention though and the 

conversation leaves him muttering 

about, in and -out of his new~ 

paper. 

Life is the subjective experience 

and· for that, The Seaford 

Tapes is a hit. 

Coming next 

at the Backspace: 

Orange Dog Theatre's 

production of 

The League of Nathans 

by Jason Sherman 

April 24-May 10 

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A new kind of performance 

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and energy. Dubbing itself 

is not really new. Children, 

especially girls, do it every 

day in playgrounds in the 

West Indies and ·North 

America. They recite 

poetry in a rhythmic way 

while performing intricate 

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hand exercises or body 

movements in unison with 

the spoken words. Raising 

this child's play to an adult 

art form is new. But make 

no mistake, Dub Theatre is 

not light entertainment, as 

anyone who has attended 

any of the recent perform- . 

ances of "dark .diaspora 

...in. DUB" can attest. 

"dark diaspora... in 

DUB" is a production of b 

current, a local non-profit 

cultural arts company. The 

show ran from late February 

until mid-March at the 

Beaver Hall Studio Gallery 

on McCaul Street. "dark 

diaspora .. .in DUB" is a 

collection of poetry and 

rhymes depicting the black 

experience in North 

America. Needless to say 

the experience fs not a 

happy one and dark diaspora 

pulls no punches 

when it comes to demonstrating 

the physical 

struggle for physical as 

well as cultural survival. 

But another theme that runs 

through the play is that of 

resistance against the 

1 ,2, & 3 people to share 

studio space with 

artists/musicians. 

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forces of oppression. These 

messages are driven home 

by the repetition of key 

words and phrases while 

seven female actors sway, 

strut,_ dance, clap their 

hands or moan in unison 

·too help --reinforce the 

point. In the background 

the drums beat a hypnotic 

rhythm. 

Warning: "dark diaspora 

.. .in DUB" is not for 

the politically timid. This 

is. a protest vehicle and no 

attempt is made at subtlety. 

The production is wellrehearsed 

and the energy 

never flags so that you stay 

with the show the whole 

time. 

Those who did not get 

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around but would like to 

should keep an eye out for 

another run later this year 

or next. It is also slated to 

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matriphiles cassette release concert 

at HMV - March 26 

Lori Yates - March 26 - Ultrasound 

Jane Siberry & Bob Wiseman - 

March 2 - The Bohemian Embassy 

Holly Near with John Bucchino - 

April l = Trinity St. Paul's 

Cate Friesen - April 15, C'est 

'''What 

Lucie Blue Tremblay - April 22, 

The EIMocambo 

Regular Events 

Mariposa Presents at The Idler 

Pub, 225 Davenport Road - ·Free 

admission 

April l, AI Cromwell 

April 8, Carol LeClair with Colin 

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April 15, Boogie Mike Barris 

April 22, Cate Friesen and friends 

April 29, Donna Dunlop 

Sundays 2-4pm, Centre 276, an 

opportunity to listen to and make 

music in an alcohol and smoke free 

environment. Bring your own 

instruments or make use of the 

plentiful supply at the Centre. 

Lori Yates at the Greeks 2-6, Sat-· 

urdays and·Sundays at Bronco's at 

the Gladstone, evening 9 -1 p.m. 

Sundays at St. Stephen's-in-the 

Fields 

Mar 29 - Kevin Barrett & Shelly 

Hamilton- Jazz guitar and vocal 

Apr. 5 - Meredith Wrede & 

young dancers - modem dance 

Apr. 12 - Karusia Wroblewski - 

modem dance 

Apr 26 - Rosemary Blake - poet 

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• butchers 

• restaurants 

& niteclubs 

• fashion 

• fish 

• food 

• house and home . 

• services . 

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FARMER BOB'S MEET THE MERCHANTS 

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I can still hear him calling out my name. "Bobby"· he 

would yell in his distinct accent. His voice overpowering · 

the usual sounds of this busy little fish market. lt usually 

meant another bucket of fish was needed for the window 

counter. This was the lntern.ational Fish Market, 

204 Baldwin Street and doin·g most of the yelling was 

Benjamin Da Estrella. · 

The hardest working man in Kensington as he has been 

described by people who know 'him. This was my old 

'boss. A man with incredible drive. I don't know where 

he got his energy but it was contagious. He was like a 

spark. Without exaggeration this man revolutionized the 

seafood industry in Toronto and this revolution would go 

full swing in Kensington Market. 

Benjamin came to Canada in 1955. He was 

recruited by the railroad companies and like many other 

Portuguese immigrants given two year contracts to build 

track here. In the Azores Islands, the Canadian railroad 

companies found willing hard-working young men. Many 

of these young men decided ~o stay and start new lives. 

One of these men was Benjamin who with his young 

family moved to Kensington Market to live above a fruit 

stand at 199 Baldwin Street where Royal Food Centre is 

now. 

In only two rooms, three families lived. These 

were hard times especially for an immigrant who did not 

speak English. This was a very Jewish market then, and 

Benjamin found employment with a merchant named 

losel (sounds like Yosel) at 195 Bald win, just two doors 

from where he lived. For thirty dollars a week (this was 

.1957) he cleaned and filleted whitefish which would oe 

ground up for gefilte fish dinners. He learned the Jewish 

way of handling fish (his wage qu.ickly grew to seventy · 

dollars a week). ~oming from the Azores Islands of 

Portugal fish was nothing new to him and he was 

accustomed to the haggling that Kensington is famous 

for. Back in the old country he' had pushed a cart 

through the streets of his village of Rabo Peixe selling 

vegetables that were grown on the family farm. 

Benjamin wanted his own business so with the partnership 

of Correia Wholesale Fish Company, which is 

located on Augusta Avenue and he set up shop at 

Dundas and Euclid with a full-service fish m arket. He 

cleaned filleted or slic·ed it any way you wanted. This 

service .• taken for granted now, was new then. Prior to 

this, fish was usually sold whole, as is. You took it home 

and did the work yourself. About' 1964-65 Benjamin 

brought his full-service concept to Kensington m arket at 

204 Bald win Street. With partner/brother-in-law Altino · 

Medeiros, he had the busiest fish-market in t own. 

Immigrants of all descriptions, especially Portuguese 

flocked to this fish m arket .. lt w as always busy . The 

Portuguese were starting to make a stronger presence in 

Kensington market which had not seen much cultural 

change since it became a market before world .war one. 

Benjamin, who I described earlier as a spark, really was. 

He encouraged others to open and set up busihesses and 

buy properties. He held mortgages, loaned money and 

offered advice. He was always willing to help those who" 

were willing to work hard. He was always wheeling and 

dealing. With an unselfish manner, he beamed with the 

satisfaction of seeing others succeed as he himself succeeded. 

He helped countless others migrate to Canada, 

assisting in any way he could, even financially. Many got 

jobs working with Benjamin in the fish store. or in construction, 

sometimes working on one of his properties. 

(He has bought an'd sold probably more than forty 

properties in and around the Kensington area.) Some of 

those fish market employees went on to open their own 

shops in Kensington and in other areas. Benjamin never 

forgot his roots, regularly sending shipments of cloth and 

clothing back to his homeland for those not as fortunate 

as hi'mself. 

Benjamin bought the 189 Baldwin Street 

property in 1971 from the Cohen family.The Cohens 

were a long-established Kensington family, having lived 

here for decades. They ran a sort-of hardware store, 

with things like cutlery, tools and toys. Benjamin quickly 

set up what is today known as "Kensington Market Fish 

Company". In the first weeks of operation Benjamin 

Junior and }Tlyself first ran the business with fresh vegetables, 

dry goods and groceries. In the weeks to follow 

it was set up in full swing as a fis-h market. Through the 

years that followed, Benjamin DaEstrella's family would 

live above and in the rear of the market with all members' 

of the family helping. Benjamin's wife, three sons and 

two daughters all did their share, not to mention other 

family members at one time or another. Through the 

years there were various partnership arrangements. 

Today the Kensington Market Fish Company is operated 

by son John who runs the shop with much of the same 

vigour as his father. Benjamin now lives· in the Azores 

Island of San Miguel and operates twelve greenhouses 

where he grows tomatoes. In time he hopes to have 

thirty. He owns shares in fishing boats there and also 

grows other crops on his farm including fruit trees like 

bananas. This guy never stops and as usual he still gets 

up at .four arn every day, even on Sundays .. 

The King is alive and well and living in Portugal 

He may not live in Canada now but he would still be my 

· first choice for King of Kensington. (The Queen of 

Canada doesn't' live here either.) He is definitely godfather 

of all the fishmongers here in Kensington. I don' t 

know anyone who would dispute this . . i-lis spark and 

competitive spirit remain and are very much what 

Kensington Market is all about. Today Kensington Market 

is famous for .fish. Kensington Market accounts for 10% 

of seafood sales in Toronto. Forty to fifty thousand 

pounds of fresh '(this figure does not include frozen) fish 

are sold here in any given week. This is about two 

tractor-trailer loads full. According to seafood wholesalers 

Kensington market's merchants are known as the 

best buyers in the business. They not only get the best 

and freshest seafood, they get the best deals. Fresh fish 

often arrives fresh in Kensington before many other 

outlets in the City even See it. Benjamin's influence 

continues. I could not imagine it any other way. 

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Kensington Patty Palace 

172 Baldwin Street 

596-6667 

Best Jamaican Beef Patty 

Micaelense Home Bakery 

319 Augusta, 923~6266 

Specializing in wedding 

cakes 

Quality· Bakery 

370 1/2 College, 922-2595 

Taste the difference quality 

makes!. Bagel Special 

$1.50/doz 

• Body & Soul 

liquor Control Board of 

Ontario 

337 Spadina, 597-0145 

Fine wine, spirits and· beer 

from around the world. 

• Community 

Alexandra Park Community 

Centre 105 Grange Court 

367-9603 Moms and tots 

drop:-in. · 

Toys! Clothing! 

T ues/Wed/Thurs 

1 Oam-noon. lnfo: Sandra 

Edwards. 

Kensington-Bellwoods 

Community Legal Services 

226 Bathurst Street, 2nd fl. 

363-0304 . 

. Free legal advice and 

representation-- 

tenants' rights, 

immigration, welfare, 

unemployment insurance, 

CPP & Workers 

Compensation. 

Centre 276 

276 Augusta Ave 

966-4059, 966-4051 (fax) 

Crafts, music & more! Your 

Centre. Drop in! 

George Brown 

Quality Child Care 

High Quality Child Care 

Infants to 9 yr. olds 

Several downtown 

locations, 944-4545 

KYTES -Kensington Youth 

Theatre and Employment 

Skills 169A Augusta Ave. 

348-9943 

An unusual social program · 

for youth. · 

Newcomer's Business 

Self-Help Office 

George Brown College 

21 Nassau St., 867-2370 

lnfo and advice to new 

business 

Sanderson Library 

327 Bathurst (at Dundas) 

Books, Information & Music 

For the whole family! 393- 

7653 \ 

Scadding Court Community 

Centre, 707 Dundas St. 

W.,M5T 2W6, 

363-5329. The Centre 

offers a variety of 

social, recreational and 

educational programs 

St. Stephens Community 

House 

91 Bellevue 

ESL, Daycare, Youth 

Recreation, 

. 925-21 03; 

Adult Services, Conflict - 

Resolution, 926-8221; 

Youth Employment Centre, 

531-4631; . 

A.I.D.E.S. 323-1498; 

The Corner Drop-In, 

977-7223; 

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The Drug Free Arcade, 

920-8980; 

King Edward Daycare, 

922-8705 

The Toronto Hospital 

Toronto Western 

399 Bathurst Street 


M5T 2S8, 368-2581 

Toronto General 

200 Elizabeth Street 


M5G 2C4, 595-3111 

The Hospital offers 

a wide range of health 

care services. The 

Emergency Departments 

offer 24-hour service, 

7 days a week to serve 

the needs of the 

community. 

University Settlement 

House 

23 Grange Rd., 598-3444 

Reaching for the future, 

rooted in the past. 

West Central Community 

Health Centre's: Alexandra 

Park Medical and Dental 

Health Care Centre 

64 Augusta 364-41 07 

(medical), 364-2998 

(dental). Serving our 

community for 21 years. 

•Computer Sales/Services· 

Blue Mountain Consulting 

253 College #208 

235-9959 

IBM and clone computers, 

diagnostic 

software and repair 

Computer Parts Galore 

316 College. 928-2161 

Retail comp~ter products. 

Systems, components, 

accessories 

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COMPUTERS, continued 

Honson Computer Corp. 

289 College St. 

967-9333, 967-4608 (fax) 

Quality systems. See ad 

p.16. 

lazerline Desktop 

Publishing & Design Inc. 

317 College Street 

924-8726 Fax 924-3826 , 

• Fashion 

AlterNatives 

30 St Andrew Street 

593-6891 . Where Elvis 

Shops. 

Get it while it lasts 

Asylum I Exil.e 

42 Kensington 595-7199 

34 St. Andrew 596-0827 

Levis. Vintage 50's & 60's. 

More! 

Choice of Champions 

44 Kensington A ve 

Vintage Clothing 

That's it. 

Courage My love 

14 Kensington A venue 

979-1992 

Dancing Days 

17 Kensington, 599-9827 

New & Vintage;Exclusive 

designers; 

Asia, Africa, Central 

America 

Expose 


Vintage, Leather Jackets, 

and Pretty Eyelet Originals! 

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Fairland 

241 Augusta, 593-9750 

Kensington's Largest 

Quality Discount Clothing 

Store 

Fashiontique 


Designer Resale, Vintage 

Antique and Collectibles' 

Get Dressed 


Fine and Refined Finds. · 

Vintage and More. 

Jaggs 

16 Kensington A ve 

Class Rags for Scallywags 

London, N.Y., Paris & 1 

Kensington 

Noise 

4 7 Kensington, 971-64 79 

Razzmattazz 

14 St. Andrew Street 

Vintage Sparkle, Pizzazz, 

Jazz. Wear lt! Share lt! 

Screenplay 


Lingerie, Cotton Lycra, 

Fabric, Suit Jackets, 

Vintage, and more 

Shoney's Recycled Clothing 

206 Augusta, 979-0700 

Lowest Prices. Best . 

Selection in Second Hand. 

T ~ A.l, M6da 

214 Augusta 593-9706 

"Clothing for the whole 

family." Trunks & luggage! 

Tom's Place 

190 Baldwin, 596-0297 

Brand name clothes 

At Kensington Prices 

• Fish Stores 

Kensington Market Fish 

Company 

189 Baldwin, 593-9269 

"Come Experience Fresh 

Fish" 

·People's Fish Market 

198 Baldwin, 979-8365 

If we don't have it, 

it doesn't swim. - 

Seafood City 

172 Harbord, 962-4894 

Unbeatable quality & price 

Open Sunday, see ad p. 6-7 

Seven Seas Fish Market 


Fresh Food and Seafood 

From Around the World 

• Food Stores 

·Augusta Fruit Market 

255 Augusta, 593-97.54 

Fruit and vegetables 

fresh daily--groceries 

Caribbean Corner 


Fresh Tropical Foods 

Select Imported Groceries 

Cheese Magic 

149 Baldwin, 593-9531 

The Neighbourhood's 

Favourite Cheese Shop 

Essence Natural Foods 

56D Kensington, 

597-2176 

For gifts of health. 

Farmer Bob's Tropical 

Harvest 


The Market's I tal Shop 

Nice Spice 

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18 Baldwin St 

979-2822 

Used LPs, COs, Tapes 

High quality selection 

Juice for life 

238 Queen Street West 

408-3581 

Juice Bar and Well-Being \ 

Emporium in the 

Queen St. Market 

Fresh vegetarian foods 

Kensington-Bellwoods 

Community Legal Services 

226 Bathurst Street, 2nd fl. 

363•0304 

Free legc;~l advice and 

representation-- , 

tenants' rights, immigration, 

welfare, unemployment 

insurance, CPP & Workers 

Compensation. 

Kensington Mall 

60 Kensington A venue 

Groceries, vegetables, 

clothing, restaurant, gift items 

Units available for rent. Come 

by a,nd see . 

Nikolaou Restaurant 

Equipment ltd 

629 Queen St. W. 

368-6411/368-3752 

Glassware, china, equipment 

"Open to the Public" 

Opalart Imports 


596-7437 

Handmade imports from 

Guatemala, Indonesia, & 

Mexico. "Friendly Service" 

Parentbooks 

201 Harbord St 

(just east of Bathurst) 

531-8334. 

Books on family issues for 

parents and professionals. _ 

Pepper Restaurant 

69 Nassau 

340-9872 

Full licence 

assorted sandwiches 

"Patio open." 

Rag s to Riches 

29 Kensington Ave 

Re-designed vintc;~ge clothes. 

Designer labels, In-store 

originals 

Shakti 

· 4 Kensington A venue, 

591-3764 phbne or fax 

All new silver, textiles and 

accessories. 

Now open. Be here. Be now 

Zorba Cafe 

40 Kensington Avenue 

7 days 'til midnight 

Full menu, fully licensed 

under the LLBO 

• Arts & Letters 

Around Again 

18 Baldwin St 

979-2822 

Used LPs, COs, Tapes 

High quality selection 

Checkerboard Gallery 

204A Baldwin, 979-7254 

Peter Matyas, Market Artist 

Kensington Artwear · 

College Books 

321 College, 975-0849 

A new bookstore serving 

}Jniversity and community 

Portuguese Book Store 

86 Nassau, 364-7954 

Jornais -- Revistas - 

Livros -- 1 Discos 

Portuguese Cook Books in 

English 

• Bakeries 

Baldwin Street Bakery 

191 Baldwin, 598-3701 

European Style -Breads and 

Pastries, 

Baked Fresh Daily 

lberica Bakery 

209 Augusta, 593-9321 

Custard Tarts, Sponge 

Cake, Solo De Arroz, Ice 

Cream 

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Fong On Foods 


Bean Cake, Soy Milk, 

Fresh Rice Noodles, 

no preservatives 

International Food Market 


Fresh Fruit and Vegetables 

Kensington Fruit Market 

34 St Andrew, 593-9530 

Fruits, vegetables, aloes 

too!! Freshness, a family 

business 

Kensington Patty Palace 


596-6667 

Best Jamaican Beef Patty 

Lusitania Grocery 

152 Augusta A venue 

593-9495 

Portuguese grocery store 

Melo's Food Centre 

151 Augusta, 596-8344 

Portuguese Style Sausages 

Import and Export 

Oxford Fruit 

71 Oxford, 363-1833 

Vegetables, fruits, quality 

24-hour call in orders 

Perola's Supermarket 

247 Augusta, 593-9728 

All kinds of groceries from 

South and Central America 

Portugt.iese Meat Mkt 

285 Augusta, 593-5518 

Fresh meat, fruit vegetables 

Sanci Tropical 


Freshest Herbs, A vocadoes, 

Mangoes, Exotica, Since 

1914 

Tutti Frutti 


Chinese ' and European 

Foods. Coffee, Chocolate, 

Cheese 

• House & Home 

CAAM United Hardware 

Two Locations! 

160 Augusta 598-8195 

564 Dundas 596- 8098 

Locksmith & Safemen 

38 Baldwin, .597-1212 

Builder's and Locksmith 

Hardware. Leading brands 

Parkly Gardens Florist 

28 St Andrew, 585-21 p9 

Fresh Cut flowers and 

plants for all occasions. 

Reingewirtz Paint Stores 

Ltd.107 Baldwin, 977-3502 

Pain~s, varnishes and 

imported wallpapers. 

• Restaurants & 

Entertainment 

51 Kensington 

Lunch Mo-Sat 12-4 Dinner 

M on-Thurs 6-11 PM 

Fri-Sat 6-11 :45 595-6337 

Amadeu's 

182-4 Augusta, 591-1245 

Portuguese cuisine, seafood 

specialists and catering 

Casa Abril em Portugal 

159 Augusta Avenue, 

593-0440 

Fine Portuguese Dining 

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Chiu Yuen Dim Sum 

Restaurant 

2A Kensington, 598-1573 

Dim Sum and Cantonese 

Style Dinners 

Open 8am to 7pm. LLBO 

Grossman's Tavern 

379 Spadina, 977-7000 

Neighbourhood Bar. 

Nightly Entertainment 

Juice for life 

238 Queen Street West 

408-3581 

Juice Bar and Well-Being 

Emporium 

in the Queen St. Market 

Fresh vegetarian foods 

Kwangtung Dim Sum 

Restaurant 

1 0 Kensington A venue 

977-5165 

Luncheon Special, LLBO 

Last Temptation 

12 Kensington 

599-2551 

Sinful Food, Tempting· 

Times, Live Mu.sic. 

Le Uyen 

56C Kensington, 598-3328 

Authentic Vietnamese 

Food, LLBO, Major cards, 

Karaoke after 8pm · 

Mars Food · 

432 College St 

921-6332 

Out Of This World 

Massimo's 

302 College, 967-0527 

Sit down, Pick-up, Delivery 

Pizza and Pasta Heaven 

P.I.E. Tiffany's Garden Cafe 

256 Augusta 961-3696 

Lunch & Dinner 

closed for renovation 

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401 Spadina, 340-6383 

A Pleasant Change-. A Little 

of the Continent in 

Chinatown: "catering" 

Spadina Garden Restaurant 

116 Dundas W. 977- 

3413/4 

Szechuan-Hunan & Peking 

Cuisine 

Fully licensed, LLBO 

Spadina Garden Restaurant 

416 Spadina, 598-2734 

Szechuan-Hunan & Peking 

Cuisine; Fully licensed, 

LLBO 

The Greeks (LLBO) 

197 112 Baldwin, 597- 

8771 

Greek and Canadian Food. 

The Original Special Coffee 

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The Boat 

158 Augusta, 593-9218 

International Cuisine 

Specializing in Portuguese · 

Food · 

The Second Cup 

181 Baldwin, 597-8398 

Valentine special. Pastry, 

coffee beans, & the famous 

Bodum 

The Second Cup 

340 College, 323-3702 

Tired of the same old grind? 

Try ours. 

• Services 

Central Guaranty Trust 

343 College, 961-824 7 

Mon closed. Tues- 

Thurs 10-5, Fri 10-7, Sat 

10-3. 

Century 21, 

First Realty Inc. 

377 Spadina, 340-8900 

Tonny Louie, broker 

Cine Cycle 

317 Spadina 

· Films, Bicycles, espresso 

and other good things 

Front Row Video Centre 

400 College Street, 927- 

1702 

Kitchen Friends Editorial 

24 Bellevue A ve 

367-4017 ' . 

Help with any writing 

Samko Coin Laundry 

150 Augusta, 595-5277 

Clean and Friendly, 

7 days a week. Dry 

Cleaning Too! 

Spadina West Postal Outlet 

576/8 Dundas, 593-0612 

Full service retail postal 

outlet. 

Sun King Cleaners 

576-578 Dundas, 593- 

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, Quality Dry Cleaning, 

Repairs and Alterations - 

Fast! 

Sun One Hour Photo Lab 

31 0 Spadina, 5 91-930.7 

One hr. processing, 

cameras, acces·sories, 

passport photos 

• Worship 

College Street United 

Church 

(corner College & Bathurst) 

929-3019 ' 

A warm welcome awaits 

you. 

St Patrick's Church · 

(Catholic) 

141 McCaul Street, 

598-3269 

St. Stephen-in-the-Fields 

(Anglican) 

103 Bellevue, 921-6350 

. All are welcome. 

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Lecture/Workshop 

NEW SCIENTIST PARADIGM 

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The old fashiL)ned scientific paradigm (closed, predictable, 

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SCHEDULE OF EVEN 

SLIDING SCALE -ADMISSION 

Townw BioregiLm Week is a non-pwfit pwject 

funded without grants. Donations and ticket sales 

are our only source of revenue. Tickets are offered 

L'n a sliding scale ti·om $5 w $7 to $10, depending 

L)n what you can afford. 

••• 

ORDER YOUR CONFERENCE 

PASSES NOW! 

WATERSHED PASS. 

All events (except dinners & hoedown): $40 

ESCARPMENT PASS. 

All events except hoedown; includes either 

Kennedy or Stadtlander/Sutcliffe dinner 

(limited): $80 

. KICKING HORSE PASS. 

All events, two dinn·ers, and hoedown! 

(limited): $125 

Call 588-8266 for information or registration. 

Please make cheques payable to, SPWC, sent to 

address below. We accept VISA and MasterCard. 

SUPPORTING A LOCAL, 

REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL 

AGENDA FOR THE 1990'S 

While Our Own Back Yard: T aroma Bioregion 

Week will present some illuminating speakers, 

forums, and workshops, it is conceived as the 

beginning of a process rather than just a conference 

for its own sake. We urge you to become 

part of the on-going process in these ways: 

!IF attend the wrap-up plenary on Friday, 

April 3rd; 

!IF fill out the Our Own Back Yard Information 

Cards available at Toronto Bioregiop 

Week events to let us know your thoughts and 

intentions about The EPA T ·Project (Ecological 

Progress and Accountability for 

Toronto; see Conference Objectives for inore 

details) 

SATURDAY MARCH 28 

CAFE OF WILD CULTURE 

HOEDOWN! 

Come and celebrate the launch of Toronto 

Bioregion Week with a real urban barn dance with 

Bill Hands and the Dolsons in the beautiful Parish 

Hall ofSL Matthias Church in the Lower Garrison 

Creek Bioregion. Cash bar and good, cheap food. 9 

pm- 1 am. Don't be shy. Abandon yourself to the 

rites of the fertile frond! 

SL Matthras Parish Hall, 45 Bellwoods Ave. 

366-6720. Saturday, March 28th. 9 pm- 1 am. 

$10-at the door_ - 

SUNDAY MARCH 29 

LANDSCAPE READINGS: 

WALKING TOURS OF 

TORONTO WATERSHEDS 

Walking tours will be led through two of the 

Toronto region's main watersystems- the Lower 

Don Valley and the Upper Rouge Valley. Points of 

community interest will be observed and discussed, 

along with the ecology of the rivers, plant, animal 

life and the people who inhabit these bioregions. 

Don Valley tour is led by Mark Wilson, Head of the 

Task Force to Bring Back the Don. Rouge Valley 

tour is given by a member of Save the Rouge. 

Tours start at the Royal Conservatory of Music, 

273 Bloor West (at Bedforsl) at 1 prr,. Rain or 

shine. Tea and cookies served ~ the end elf each 

touL Transportation is shared so please make your 

reservations in advance and tell us if you have a 

caL Call 588-8266. 

Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor West 

(at Bedford). Sunday, March 29. 1 pm. $5, $7,$10. 

OUR OWN BACK YARD: 

TORONTO BIOREGIQ_N WEEK 

SPONSORING ORGANIZATION: 

The Society for the Preservation of Wild Culture 

DIRECTOR: Whitney Smith 

CHAIR, SPONSORING ORGANIZATION: 

Christopher Lowry 

PROJECT MANAGER: Marie Patterson 

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: David Warren 

GRAPHIC DESIGN: Bernard Stock! 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: David Walsh, 

Doormouse Distribution, Perennial Gardens, Jack 

Layton, The Royal Commission on the Future of 

· the Toronto Waterfront, The Wellington Club, 

City ofT oronta-through the Toronto Arts Council - 

and the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, 

Cultural Affairs Division (for their support of the 

Landscape Readings and the Cafes of Wild Cui- - 

ture) - and all our volunteers. 

For more information contact: 

OUR OWN BACK YARD: 

TORONTO BIOREGION WEEK 

WILD CULTURE, 158 Crawford Street, 

Toronto, Ontario, M6J 2V4, Fax: (416) 538-6829 

TELEPHONE: (416) 588,8266 

Michael Stadtlander 

Food 

THE $5 STREET 

FOOD FESTIVAL 

Knives & Forks Chefs 

An afternoon of innovation featuring local organically 

grown food. Chefs from all over Southern 

Ontario will prepare bioregion-friendly variations 

on the h~mburger/hot dog. That is, self-contained 

meals made with or without m~at tha~ you can 

hold in one hand that sell for under $5 .. Presented 

by Knives & Forks, the allianc~ of chefs and or· 

ganic farmers. 

St. Matthias Parish Hall, 45 Bellwoods Ave. 

366-6720. Sunday, March 29th. 12 pm- 4 pm. 

Free admission to the festival (this does not include 

price of $5 food items),



David Crombie 

Stephanie Mills 

TUESDAY MARCH 31 

Lecture/Work~ hop 

ECOLOGICAL 

RESTORATION: 

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE 

Stephanie Mills and John Maher 

Editor, writer and environmental activist, Northern 

Michigan resident Stephanie Mills talks about the 

background and development of the North American 

bioregional movement and presents examples of 

successful ecological restoration in local bioregions. 

John Maher, of the Black Creek project, outlines his 

experience in ecological restoration and organizing 

in Toronto. Mills and Maher will discuss how effective 

community bioregional organizing depends on the 

human and geographic scale of the project. 

OISE, 252 Bloor St. W., Rm. 4-411. 923- 

6641. Tues., March3L 5:30 -7:00pm. $5, $7,$10. 

Forum 

THE STATE OF OUR 

BIOREGION: WHERE DO WE 

GO FROM HERE? 

Henry Regier, Jack Layton, 

Joell Vanderwagen, Sean Cosgrove, 

Michael White, Peter Berg. 

Stephanie Mills, moderator. 

Passionate and thoughtful citizens explore the state 

of the Greater Toronto Bioregion in 1992 from 

scientific, environmental, social and political perspectives. 

They will discuss the question ofhow to 

restore the area and what steps are required to improve 

the livabiliry of the bioregion in this decade. Included, 

in this evening are detailed examples by bioregional 

pioneer, Peter Berg. He will speak on the San 

Francisco Bay Area and variousNorth American 

ecological renewal success stories. 

'OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Rm. 4-411.923- 

6641. Tuesday, March 31.8 pm. $5, $7,$10. 

WEDNESDAY APRIL 1 

Ceremony & Speakers 

BREAKING THE PAVEMENT: 

THE OSSINGTON OLD 

ORCHARD WILDERNESS 

GARDEN 

For the last.three years a group oflandscape gardeners, 

teach,ers, parents and children from kindergarten 

to grade six have worked to create a multifaceted 

wilderness garden in a school playground. 

The garden features vegetable terraces, an upland 

forest and a bird-attracting aviary. At this ceremony, 

the first pieces of asphalt will be dug up to 

make way for a new field made out of native grass 

and prairie plants, and to re-establish an orchard 

that existed there in the early 1900's. 

Ossington Old O.,rchard Public School, 380 

Ossington Ave. (south o( College) 393-0710. 

Wednesday, Aprill. 1 pm-3 pm. Free admission.



BRIAN MILANI is a labour and environmental 

activist and a partner with the workerowned 

Green City Design & Construction Ltd.· 

STEPHANIE MILLS is a well-known writer 

fro!Il Maple City, Michigan. She was a co-organizer 

of the 1991 Great Lakes· Bioregional Congress and 

author of Whatever Happened to Ecology? (Sierra 

Books, 1990) and Praise the Land (Island Press, 1990) 

MARY LOU MORGAN is a founding 

member of the Big Carrot Natural Food Market, a 

member M Origins, a federally incorporated worker 

cooperative that is ~arketing organic foods across 

Canada, and a member of SUMAC which works 

with "start-up" cooperative businesses. • 

SARA RANG is a partner with Environmental 

Economics International, a former executive 

assistant to the Ontario Minister of the Environment, 

and co-ordinator of an Environment 

Canada/McMaster University Great Lakes project. 

H~NRY REGIER is Director of the Institute of 

Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto, 

frequent member of the United Nations "Man and the 

Biosphere Program", and former Commissioner of the 

Great Lakes Fishery Commission. 

STAN ROGAL has published extensively in 

magazines in the U.S., England and Canada. His 

first book of poems will be published by Wolsak & 

Wynn next month. 

PAULINE SHIRT is a member of the Bird 

Clan of the Cree Nation, founder of Wandering 

Spirit Survival School (First Nation School) 

founder of Red Willow (Native Healing Centre) 

and President oflndian Rights for Indian Woman. 

MICHAEL STADTLANDER is chef at the 

Resto Palmerston and an innovator in Canadian 

Cuisine- drawing on the bou·nty of the'forests, 

waters and markets of Ontario and the Pacific 

Northwest. 

JUDITH STAMP is a long time member of 

the Southern Ontario environmental community, 

. a founding member of The Big Carrot health food 

store and currently doing graduate work at the 

Institute of Environmental Studies at the University 

ofT oronto. 

CAROL SUTCLIFFE is an organic Chef 

and grower at KiJilgview farm possessing a unique 

understanding of the interconnectedness of the 

growing - cooking - eating cycle. 

JOELL VANDERWAGEN is a member of 

the consultative committee overseeing development 

of the Ontario Government new Transit 

Supportive Land-Use Guidelines, transportation 

c'onsultant to Greenpeace Canada, and author of 

the Greenpeace Report Transit in Canada. , 

NICHOLAS V ARDIN is City Engineer and 

Commissioner for the Department of Public Works 

and the Environment, City ofT oronto. 

ALEXANDER WILSON is a hortic ~lturist, 

partner in the Garrison Creek Planting Company, 

and author of the book The Culture of Nature: North 

American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez. 

MICHAEL WHITE is chair of the Friends of 

the Don of York Region, and a member of the 

Public Advisory Committee of the Metro Toronto 

Remedial Action Plan for the Cleanup of the 

Great Lak~s . 

MARK J. WILSON is head of the Task Force 

to Bring Back the Don, a member of The Tor onto 

Field Naturalists, and a resident of the Riverdale 

community in Toronto. 

MIRIAM WYMAN is O utreach Coordinator 

of the Waste Reduction Office, President of the 

Women and Environments Education and Development 

Foundation (WEED), and NGO representative 

speaking for women on the Canadian delegation 

to the U.N. Conference on Environment 

and Development. 

"There is an utgent need for 

regeneration of the entire Greater 

Toronto Bioregion to rerri.edy 

environmental prob~ms ... for existing 

and future generations." 

-Watershed (interim Report, 1990, Royal 

Commission on the Future of the Toronto W 

"Our Own Back Yard 

inaugurates a new kind of civic 

celebration that joins the ecological 

security of all urban centres, 

not just Toronto's." 

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#9202 - Mar 1992

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